After six years, development on Window Maker has picked up again. Other than mere bug fixes, the two new releases (so far) also include lots of code cleanup and, yes, new features as well. Welcome back!

The button on the left of the title bar is the "iconify" button. It will minimize the window into a miniwindow. There isn't a maximize button on the title bar, nor is there an option to add one, although you can create a keyboard shortcut for it.

Right clicking on the title bar provides options to maximize, miniaturize, shade, hide (into the dock icon), and so on. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to all of these actions.

You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to maximize vertically or horizontall, maximize to the left half or right half of the screen, or do tiled maximizing, among other things.

The default is to maximize over miniwindows but not over the dock. The dock is what allows you to change between applications (in a sense). Even so, you have the option to maximize over the dock if you'd like.

I'm so grateful for Window Maker providing a user interface that isn't just a slightly modified version of the Windows 95 user interface. I think there's enough of them.